Expecting Moms That Talk Publicly About Abortion: Right Or Wrong?

I couldn't sleep the other night, so I turned on the television and watched a rerun of Kourtney and Klhoe Take Miami. It was the episode where Kourtney and her boyfriend Scott were at the OB-GYN's and Scott said: "Do you wanna keep it?" It got me thinking about talking about abortion publicly and wondering what the child you were considering aborting might think (it made my brain hurt!).

After Kourtney decided to keep the baby she went on to tell People magazine: "I definitely thought about it long and hard, about if I wanted to keep the baby or not, and I wasn't thinking about adoption...I do think every woman should have the right to do what they want, but I don't think it's talked through enough. I can't even tell you how many people just say, 'Oh, get an abortion.' Like it's not a big deal."

Here's the thing though, JD is here and next month Kourtney's baby boy will arrive--was it wrong for us to speak publicly about the decision we had to make? When my agent was selling Rattled! she set up a phone interview for me with one of the publishers that was interested in the book. After reviewing my proposal the book editor said: "Why would you even write about abortion as an option? You had the baby. That's just weird. You want him to read that?" Why? Because I was writing a memoir and in real life you don't get to skip over the hard parts to get to the easy ones. Still, I see what she means. JD is going to read that one day. (And no, we didn't sell to that publisher.) Discuss...